Month: November 2021

MILWAUKEE (AP) — An attorney representing a man accused of plowing his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee in two other cases has dropped him as a client, citing ties to people he allegedly injured. Investigators say Darrell Brooks injured dozens of people and killed six when he drove through the parade in

By RAF CASERT and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Economic powerhouses Japan and France are reporting their first cases of the omicron variant, while new findings indicate the mutant coronavirus was already in Europe close to a week before South Africa sounded the alarm. It highlights the difficulty in containing the virus in

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a man accused of accidentally firing a gun in his bag at the Atlanta airport has turned himself in. Police say 42-year-old Kenny Wells was waiting at a security checkpoint Nov. 20 when his bag was pulled aside for a secondary check. Police say he lunged into his bag and

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright says the former officer will testify at her trial. Attorney Paul Engh said Tuesday that Kim Potter will speak directly to jurors about the April 11 traffic stop that ended

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say someone opened fire at a Michigan high school and shot four to six people. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said in an initial news release that there were no reported fatalities in the Tuesday afternoon attack at Oxford High School in Oxford Township,

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year’s presidential race. The political battleground becomes the latest front in the national push by the GOP to exert more control over

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have searched the home of rocker Marilyn Manson after allegations of physical and sexual abuse by several women. A Los Angeles County sheriff’s statement says investigators seized media storage devices in the search of the Hollywood-area home early Monday morning. Manson, whose legal name

JERUSALEM (AP) — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million other Jews killed by the Nazis. The candle-lighting was organized by the Jewish Claims Conference at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, the holiest

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman has testified she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 and that Ghislaine Maxwell was there when it happened. The witness took the stand Tuesday using the pseudonym “Jane.” She is the first of four

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a man convicted of killing two Del City hotel workers in 2001. The panel voted 4-1 on Tuesday against the clemency recommendation for 45-year-old Donald Grant. Two members of the panel who rejected clemency noted the particularly